Chapter 4 (The Americans) 2016

Question 1

The first African-American U.S. senator

Answer 1

Hiram Revels

Question 2

Radical Republican leader during Reconstruction

Answer 2

Charles Sumner

Question 3

led the fight against the Compromise of 1850

Answer 3

John C. Calhoun

Question 4

the Union general who burned a path of destruction through Georgia

Answer 4

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 5

wrote a novel that incited protests against the Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 5

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 6

general who surrendered the Confederate Army to Union forces

Answer 6

Robert E. Lee

Question 7

conductor on the underground railroad

Answer 7

Harriet Tubman

Question 8

General who won at vicksburg and became commander of all Union armies

Answer 8

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 9

U.S. senator who debated Abraham Lincoln on slavery in the slavery territories

Answer 9

Stephen A. Douglas

Question 10

Republican who the presidency in 1860

Answer 10

Abraham Lincoln

Question 11

Which event was a direct result of the Compromise of 1850
a. Violence broke out in Kansas
b, The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed
c. California was admitted as a free state
d. Slavery was ended in Washington D.C.

Answer 11

California was admitted as a free state

Question 12

Under popular sovereignty. who would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory

a. the senate
b. the president
c. the residents of the territory
d. the House of representatives

Answer 12

the residents of the territory

Question 13

What did the supreme court declare in the Dred Scott decision.
a. Being in free territory did not make a slave free
b. Being In free territory automatically made a slave free
c. Slave owners could not move into free territory with slaves
D. Slave owners could no travel through free territory with slaves.

Answer 13

Being in free territory did not make a slave free

Question 14

When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln’s main goal.

a. to free the slaves
b. to punish the South
c. to restore the Union
d. to bring an end to the war

Answer 14

to restore the union

Question 15

In which if the following areas did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?

a. food production
b. civilian leadership
c. industrial capacity
d. military leadership

Answer 15

military leadership

Question 16

Which of the following abolished slavery in the North/border states?

a. the Gettysburg Address
b. the Thirteenth Amendment
c. the Compromise of 1850
d. the Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 16

the Emancipation Proclomation

Question 17

Why is the battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?

a. It made the South give up the idea of invading the North
b. It cut the Confederacy in two
c. It convinced the Confederacy to surrender
d. It marked the first Union victory on the battlefield

Answer 17

It made the South give up the idea of invading the North

Question 18

Which of the following quotations is from the Gettysburg Address?

a. “We are not prepared for this suffrage. But we can learn”
b. “All persons held as slaves… henceforward shall be free”
c. “The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here”
d. “You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth—-right at your doorstep.

Answer 18

“All persons held as slaves… henceforward shall be free”

Question 19

Which action showed that President Andrew Johnson did not support greater rights for African Americans in the South

a. He allowed many high ranking Confederates to vote without swearing allegiance to the United States
b. He vetoed the Freedmen’s Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
c. He fired Secretary of war Edwin Stanton in 1868.
d. He supported a Reconstruction plan similar to President Lincoln’s plan

Answer 19

He vetoed the Freedmen’s Bureau Act and the Civil Rights act of 1866

Question 20

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Reconstruction act of 1867?

a. The South would e divided into military districts.
b. Southern states had to pass the Fourteenth Amendment
c. Southern states had to five African Americans the right to vote
d. All African-American families would receive 40 acres and a mule

Answer 20

All African American families would receive 40 acres and a mule.

Question 21

What key difference between the North and the South ultimately led to the civil war
a. The Southern climate was warm, while the Northern climate was cooler
b. The South was less densely populated than the North.
c, The South was agricultural, while the North was more industrialized
d. The Southern economy depended on slavery, while the Northern economy did not.

Answer 21

The Southern economy depended on slavery, while the Northern economy did not

Question 22

Which group is an example f Northerners who wanted to keep slavery out of the territories but did not have positive feelings toward African- Americans

a. free soilers
b. border ruffians
c. Abolitionists
d. Confederates

Answer 22

free-soilers

Question 23

What was John Brown’s aim at Harpers Ferry?

a. to keep pro-slavery settlers out of Kansas
b. to help fugitive slaves reach freedom in the North
c. to challenge Abraham Lincoln in a presidential debate
d. to seize a federal arsenal and start a widespread slave uprising

Answer 23

to seize a federal arsenal and start a widespread slave uprising

Question 24

Which was not a part of the Union’s three-part plan to conquer the South

a. blockade southern ports
b. draft freed slaves to fight for the Union
c. capture the Confederate capital
d. split the Confederacy in two

Answer 24

draft freed slaves to fight for the Union

Question 25

What was an important effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?

a. It immediately freed southern slaves
b. It gave a moral purpose to the war
c. It united the Republican Party
d. It kept Great Britain out of the war

Answer 25

It gave a moral purpose to the war

Question 26

Which of the following does NOT describe the battle of Gettysburg?

a. the only time the South invaded the North
b. a battle with heavy casualties on both sides
c. the battle that cut the Confederacy in two
d. a devastating defeat for the Confederates

Answer 26

the battle that cut the Confederacy in two